"School network may decide on headscarf ban"

Belgium's Constitutional Court has ruled that the official Flemish Community schools network has the right to decide for itself whether the Moslem headscarf or other religious symbols may be worn in their schools.

However, it is another body, the Council of State, which will have the final say.

The matter came to a head after a school in Antwerp banned the wearing of the headscarf on its premises two years ago.